Finding Hope in Despair

I republish this poem from my book, One Moment, One Chance, Always: Finding Hope in Despair.

I wrote this book after the November, 2024 election, feeling that we all would soon need to find hope in despair.  It seems that time is now...

   Spirit spoke with the people, encouraging them to wake up and to look inside themselves, for therein breathed the way forward through the bedlam.

Beings of Light & Love

‘In these, the final moments,

the lambs dine with the wolf.’ 

‘The sneer upon the wolf’s countenance

as it anticipates the taste of its first kill

is shockingly unrecognizable to its prey.’

Spirit suggests that we answer its question

without ado for the meal is nigh finished.

‘What blinds the lambs to their certain peril?’

Without ado, lest we run away, spirit follows,

‘You are the lambs led now to the slaughter.

Open your eyes and see the reality unfurling!’

‘Unfeasible, we are an advanced, learned society.’

‘Immaterial, the sight needed lives in your heart.’

‘What you augur is impossible in the United States!’

‘America is no longer united. Behold now and see.’

‘But we have a system designed to fend off dictators.’

‘To be dismantled without ado when he takes reign.’

‘The reality you prophesy is horrendous, preposterous!

When we try to hold this unbearable vision, it vanishes

into the corners of our hearts and souls. It is too much!’

‘Why would you ask us to step willingly into this nightmare?

We endeavor so to not fall into fear, to walk instead in love.

What could possibly be the purpose of plunging us into fear?’

‘Because if you view the world as it is, you can create solutions.’

‘But how can we create answers when we are consumed by fear?

The fear defeats our ability to think, provokes us to run or fight.’

‘Yes, if you succumb to your fear, it will compromise your abilities.

Rather, honor the lessons it offers, then choose your path forward.

Use the knowledge to find the gifts unique to you that you can offer.’

‘Every one of you was born with distinctive gifts to offer in this moment.

The gifts will come to the fore when opportunities surface to offer them.

You were born for this moment because your unique gifting is imperative.’

No more, lambs led to slaughter. Now arise powerful beings of light and love.